I'm fascinated by the brain. How it works, how it collects and saves new information, how it grows and develops, how things go wrong in diseases like Alzheimer's Disease. I'm going to share my ideas here.
From Wiki Commons, this shows the incredible amount of folding in your cortex, which allows so much brain to fit inside your relatively small cranium.
This shows the neurons or brain cells with the web of dendrites that connect to each other and let messages flow from cell to cell.
Here's a list I made: The Top Ten Things to Know About Your Brain and Learning. (It's written especially for 5th graders!)
Here's a list I made: The Top Ten Things to Know About Your Brain and Learning. (It's written especially for 5th graders!)